Improved cab and track poe elevating on inclined planes



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' Lama gaat; No. 81,677,6zata1 Septante 1, 15868..

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To ALL wHoM-IT MAY CONGERN;

"Beit knownr .that I, JOHN W. PEARCELof-Suisun, county of Solano, Stateof California, have'invented an Improved'Car and Track for Elevating on Inclined -Planes; and I (1o-hereby declare the following description -v and accompanying drawings are suh'icient to'enahleany person skilled in the art or science to` which it most nearly appertains to makeran'duse my said invention or improvement without further invention or experiment.4

The principal object 4oi my invention is to. provide an improved device for unloading or discharging ships. at'their piers or wharv'es, and elevating merchandise or grain, when in sacks, from iioor to ioor in warehouses,

Valthoingh it may be employed for other purposes n ot herein enumerated.

VMy invention consists Vof a frame placed at an incline, and having incline ways at the top and bottom, on which avcar made to traverse up and down, by means of a rope attached to a windlass, passing through a pulley or block, and connected to the car.v vThe frame and tracks assume a horizontal position at its upper end,

`and the construction of the `car and.'` tracks is such that the car maintains a'. horizontal position while ascending or descending the incline as wellas when on a plane.

Referring to the drawings, forming a part of this specicatiom'of which- Figure 1 is a. side sectional elevation, Figure 2 is a bottoml view of the truck-f 4 A represents an incline frame, which is constructed so as to assume arhorizontal position at B, its upper end. Tracks or ways. C C are placed on the topot` the frame, with flanges D D at each side. A second track, E E, is constructed at the bottom, resting on the genoss-bars of the frame, and in close Contact with thc sides, until the track assumes the horizontalg when'it is depressed only a little below the upper one. p 1 The car F is constructed in the ordinary way of four-wheeled trucks, with the exception that the forward axle F is shortened, so as 4to admit the wheels to ascend and descend o n the lower track, yet all four of the wheels are of the same diameter,and tho-rear wheels mayhcprovided with flanges, to take Ithe place`of the flanges D'D at the top ot-v the frame. The flanges on theifront Vwheel may be on the inside, and those on thev rear wheels ontheoutside, so 'as to keep` the trucks firmly on the track.l

AThe carinay be loaded when in a horizontalposition on the floor, or when partially up the incline on: the tracks. 1A rope or tackle, G, isattached by a hook or other device to an eye, G', infront ot' the forward axle,

[and passes through a block, H, at the upper endet' the frame, and yfrom thence t0 a shaft,.I, placed transverscly across the frame,.upon which it is'wound by means of a crank, J', upon which is a pinion, J/, which engagesa wheel at the end of the shaft I, by-which 'means thc car is drawn up, the forward trucks or wheels v passing up the lower track, and therear wheels the upper track, while the car always-maintains'a horizontalY position.

A suitable brake may be provided,v so as to arrest the car at any point along the track.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to' secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the double-inclined track, of the described construction, a storeor freight-truck, hav.- ng one-axle shorter than v'the otber.,"to adapt itfto run on said track, and keep a horizontal position whilepassing up or down the same, substantially as described.

In witness whereof', I-have'here'unto set myhand and seal. 4

. J..w. PEARCE. [n 5.] lWitnesses: 

